The BEST episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond season 8
Every episode of Everybody Loves Raymond season 8, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond season 8!
Everybody Loves Raymond revolves around Ray Barone, a successful sportswriter living on Long Island with his wife, Debra, 12-year-old daughter, Ally, and 8-year-old twin sons, Geoffrey and Michael. That's the good news. The bad news? Ray's meddling parents, Frank and Marie, live directly across the street and embrace the motto "Su casa es mi casa," infiltrating their son's home to an extent unparalleled in television history. Frank's favorite expression, "Holy Crap," is shouted at regular intervals, and Marie's "cooking advice" is less than appreciated by Debra. Brother Robert, a divorced policeman, is constantly moving in and out of his parents' house, and loves to drop over and resent Ray's successful career and happy family life. Ray and Debra just wish someone would knock once in a while. Finalizing it's 9th and final season, the cast and crew of "ELR" has had a very successful run, and it makes it even harder for them all to say good-bye.
#1 - Crazy Chin
Season 8 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/22/2004
Amy's parents put Robert on the defensive when they point out his compulsive habit of touching food to his chin before he eats it.
#2 - The Model
Season 8 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/10/2004
Robert has been discovered. While he and Amy are out buying Chinese food, a modelling agent gives Robert his card. Robert and Amy tells everyone about the modelling opportunity and Robert later goes to the agency for his first profile shoot. Ray, who really wants to meet the models, especially the Swedish kind, accompanies Robert to the agency, but when they get there, everything has mysteriously disappeared.
#3 - The Bird
Season 8 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/24/2003
Robert and Amy convince their families to spend Thanksgiving together. When the Barones arrive at the Pennsylvania home of Amy's parents, they find that their differing family traditions encourage lots of lively conversation.
#4 - Golf for It
Season 8 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/24/2004
Robert and Ray end up with the mother of all guilt trips when they decide not to help their mother with a home project. The reason they skip out is so that they can land a prime spot on the golf course, by waiting in line in their car all night.
#5 - Blabbermouths
Season 8 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/3/2004
When Robert informs Ray that Amy filled him in on some juicy gossip about him, Ray decides to get even with Debra by sharing some nasty secrets of his own.
#6 - Lateness
Season 8 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/9/2004
Fed up with his wife's constant lateness, Ray leaves Debra at home rather than take her to the ESPY Awards. While Debra is seething over Ray's actions, Marie and Amy get into a heated debate with Frank and Robert when they air their own grievances about their wives' blatant disregard for the time.
#7 - Jazz Records
Season 8 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/15/2003
When the kids ruin Ray's dictionary, Frank shares the story of how Ray ruined his priced jazz collection. After trying to make amends for his childhood mistake, Ray discovers that he may not have been the culprit.
#8 - Whose Side Are You On?
Season 8 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/2/2004
After realizing that Debra places bets with the kids on his questionable behavioural traits, Ray is insulted that his own children thinks he's a "doof."
#9 - The Mentor
Season 8 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/17/2004
A young man named Sam Gilula arrives at Frank and Marie's and everyone is surprised, when he and Frank fondly embrace. Sam explains to Ray and Robert that Frank had been an inspiration and a mentor to him when he was a young lad. The two are understandably in disbelief.
#10 - Peter on the Couch
Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/2003
After Amy invites her brother Peter to stay for dinner, he makes himself at home on the couch and never leaves.
#11 - Liars
Season 8 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/2003
Ray and Debra get caught up in telling lies in order to cover up previous lies. When the lies snowball out of control, Marie picks up the scent and traces everything back to the initial lie.
#12 - The Contractor
Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/2003
Debra persuades Ray to hire Gianni to do some remodelling in their kitchen, but they both soon regret it due to their friend's laziness.
#13 - The Ingrate
Season 8 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/1/2004
Debra is hurt when Ray receives an honorary doctorate and thanks everyone except her in his acceptance speech.
#14 - Party Dress
Season 8 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/16/2004
Ray and Debra disagree over whether they should purchase an expensive dress for Ally to wear to a friend Molly's formal 13th. birthday party. Especially since Molly's mom is the woman that Ray loves to hate, Peggy.
#15 - The Surprise Party
Season 8 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/2003
After Debra's mother suggests throwing Debra an old-fashioned English tea party, Ray reluctantly agrees after she promises to do all the work. When Debra realizes Ray is planning something for her birthday, she suggests changing the theme to a Chinese banquet.
#16 - The Nice Talk
Season 8 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/19/2004
When the MacDougals are invited to spend Easter with the Barones, the two families attempt to bond over a 500-piece puzzle. While everyone else gets frustrated with the puzzle, Ray and Pat continue working on it until the wee hours of the night while sharing stories about themselves and their families.
#17 - Thank You Notes
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/29/2003
Marie instantly tries to get the upper hand in her relationship with her new daughter-in-law when Amy and Robert return from their honeymoon, but Debra steps in, determined to stop Marie's meddling once and for all.
#18 - Misery Loves Company
Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/13/2003
Debra and Ray are annoyed at the over-the-top affection Robert and Amy are expressing towards each other. In fact, Robert feels compelled to give Ray marriage advice and Amy does the same with Debra at the newly-wed couple's three months anniversary dinner.
#19 - Slave
Season 8 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/12/2004
After inadvertently leaving the twins home alone, Ray and Debra are impressed with Ally when she steps up and takes care of the twins until they return.
#20 - Security
Season 8 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/23/2004
Robert reveals that he has taken a second job selling home security systems, and that he has been asked to join the security firm full-time. But of course, this would mean retiring from the police force early.
#21 - Fun with Debra
Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/2003
Debra talks Ray into letting her join him on the golf course, after she once again realizes that they don't have fun together anymore.
#22 - Debra at the Lodge
Season 8 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/5/2004
When Debra accepts a position at Frank's lodge to help plan a member recruitment party, Ray begins to resent how much time she is spending away from home.
#23 - Home from School
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/6/2003
When Michael stays home from school two days in a row, Ray suspects that he simply hasn't done his homework, but the rest of the family have their own explanation for Michael's sudden aversion to school.